• Symposium, December 21
  13:00-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Lecture Room 201
  

• Open lecture, November 9
  14:00-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Lecture Room 201
  1. K. Kobayashi (Kagoshima University Faculty of Science)："History of volcanic activity"
  2. K.Kinoshita (Kagoshima University Faculty of Education) ："Volcanic plumes observed by satellite"
  3. K. Hayakaze (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) ："Eruption and gas from a volcano in Miyake Island"
  4. T. Uchida (Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University) ："Volcanic gas"
  
• Symposium, November 10
  9:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Lecture Room 201
  1. H. Shinohara (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)："Volcanic activity in Iou Island"
  2. M. Iguchi (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)：Volcanic activity and the observation of volcanic heat in the Satsunan Islands
  3. A. Tupper (Kagoshima University Faculty of Education)："Monitoring volcanic activity in South Pacific"
  

16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , Lecture Room 201

[Abstract] Habu, Trimeresurus flavoviridis and Himehabu, Trimeresurus okinavensis are the snakes of genus Trimeresurus which inhabit in the Amami Islands, Japan. Both Habu and Himehabu inhibit in Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima, although Habu, one of these species inhibits in Kakeromazima, Yorozima, Ukejima and Edatekujima. Habu or Himehabu never inhibits in Kikaizima, Okierabuzima　and Yorontou.
Mice and rats are main food of Habu which inhibits in the sugar-cane fields or near houses in these islands, although food of juvenile Habu are unknown. The body lengthes of adult female Habu and Himehabu are 120 cm and 45 cm, respectively. I will talk about the life history of genus Trimeresurus in the Amami Islands.

16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , Lecture Room 201

[Abstract] ‘A shuttle callus system’, in which embryogenic callus obtained from embryos or embryoids of citrus can produce embryoids, and the embryoids in turn can produce embryogenic callus reciprocally, will be discussed. Embryogenic callus could also be obtained from anther culture-derived embryoids. Viable protoplasts could be produced easily from embryogenic callus, and used in somatic hybridization and genetic transformation.

16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , Lecture Room 201

[Abstract] Plants have usually played an important role in the economic, industrial and cultural life of people throughout the world. Indonesia as the biggest tropical forest country in Indo-Malayan region or the 2nd biggest in the world after Brazil is very rich not only in its biological diversity, but also in the diversity of its ethnic groups. Zingiberaceae is a very important plant family in Indonesia, since it had long cultural life, i.e. with Javanese tribe as traditional medicines, and also had an economic value. From taxonomic point of view, this family is also an interesting family, due to the fact that it is a complex and big family, and that is has a pantropical distribution. The revision of Malesian Zingiberaceae is still in progress and not yet finished.
Based on the field and literature studies, the traditional uses and the geographical distribution of genera and species of Zingiberaceae in Indonesia will be discussed in this lecture. The results show that 60 species belonging to 11 genera have been used for many purposes and particularly used as medicinal plants, spices and condiments. The most economic genera are Curcuma, Zingiber, Amomum, Etlingera and Alpinia. The review studies of Zingiberaceae in Indonesia found that the total number of genera and species of Zingiberaceae is 20 and 386 respectively. The three biggest genera with total number of species are Alpinia (92), Amomum (66) and Riedelia (62).

[Abstract] At a seminar on agricultural geography which I attended when I was a graduate student in biology, well over thirty years ago, our professor forced us to read through a rather slender book which had just been written by a Danish lady, Ester Boserup. This seminal work, published in 1965, was at first admired by only a few scholars in addition to our professor. In the 1970s, however, a growing number of archaeologists, anthropologists, and geographers―including me―became very enthusiastic supporters of the model proposed by Boserup. She has also become well known as one of the eminent pioneer scholars on the role of the feminine gender for agricultural production.
The origins of her model could be partially traced to Engels' comment rebutting Malthus' theory and, offering a more optimistic perspective on population growth. The reason her model amazed and charmed me was that she posited the highest labor productivity of swidden agriculture in comparison with any other type of cultivated production except for modern agriculture to which a huge quantity of subsidiary energy is applied. This view was and still is completely contrary to commonsense. Immediately after I passed the final examination for my doctoral degree in 1972, I directed my academic activities at determining whether this starting hypothesis of her model can be confirmed in actual cases. In the coming seminar on the 26th of March, 2002, I will talk about this path which my academic career followed.

• The Cultural Climate of Tokunosima
  Hiroyuki Suzuki （Ryukyu University, Faculty of Law and Letters ）
  
• Religion in Amami
  Aki Tokumaru （Kagoshima University, Faculty of Law, Economics, and the Humanities）
  
• Architecture in Amami
  Mituyoshi Tsuchida （Kagoshima University, Faculty of Engineering）
  

  Commentator: Chiaki Tabata（Oita University, Faculty of Education and Welfare Science ）
  Organizer and the Chair: Sueo Kuwahara （Kagoshima University, Faculty of Law, Economics, and the Humanities）